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Canada’s long-distance velocity skater has taken a step again this season. They ended with a complete of 16 and two gold when the tour concluded just a few weeks in the past after profitable 23 medals, together with 5 gold at six World Cup stops between 2023 and 24. This places Canada in seventh in whole medals. This was decreased from the fourth final season.
One other decline seems to be virtually inevitable on the World Distance Championships held in Norway from Thursday to Sunday. Final yr, when the occasion was held at Calgary’s Olympic Oval, the Canadian gained a nationwide document 10 medals.
Nonetheless, Canada has a robust medal candidate at Hammer Olympic Corridor this week. Vikingskipet (Viking ship).
Let’s begin with Ivanie Blondin, a five-time world champion and double Olympic medalist who led all Canadians on the rostrum of the eight World Cup this season. 4 of them got here in particular person races. It turned out to be Canada’s solely Gold season, together with an astonishing victory at Japan’s 3,000m opener in November. Blondin additionally gained silver in the identical match (her specialty) earlier than ending silver within the Bronze and Mass begin within the last two World Cups.
Look | Blondin captures the mass of Polish bronze:
Ivanie Blondin gained a bronze medal within the ladies’s mass begin race on the ISU World Cup velocity skating occasion held at Tomaszów Mazowiecki in Poland.
The 34-year-old added 4 relay medals through the season, together with gold and silver to the ladies’s staff dash. Blondin helped Canada win the world title in a staff dash in Calgary final yr. Nevertheless, Blondin’s Olympic champion chase trio, Isabel Weideman and Valerie Martais, didn’t attain the rostrum in one of many two begins this season, whereas Weideman and Martais every managed one solo medal.
On the boys’s aspect, Canada depends on Laurent Debrail. The 32-year-old Sprinter gained the boys’s 500m (shortest race on lengthy tracks) on the 2021 World Championships, profitable silver for the final two years, and in 2022 he gained Olympic Silver within the 1,000m.
Dubreuil was the one Canadian to win a medal on the males’s World Cup occasion this season – particular person or staff. He gathered six individuals, recovered from a gro caliber damage and was away from the rostrum to achieve the rostrum in 5 of the final six 500m races (most World Cup competitions provide two per gender in comparison with when there was just one in different distances).
Dubreuil completed second within the boys’ 500m place for the fifth time in his profession. On the planet, he may as soon as once more pursue Jordanthruz, a pure 20-year-old American military who cleans 500m, 1,000m and 1,500m titles by profitable 17 of 21 particular person races throughout all distances this season.
A whole record of competing Canadians:
male
Ted-Jan Bloemen: 5,000m, 10,000,
Laurent Dubreuil: 500m, 1,000m, Crew Dash
Christopher Fiora: 500m
Graeme Fish: 5,000m, 10,000m
Connorhau: 1,000m, 1,500m, Crew Dash
Anders Johnson: 500m, Crew Dash
David La Rue: 1,000m, 1,500m, Mass Begin
lady
Ivanie Blondin: 1,500m, 3,000m, Mass Begin, Crew Dash, Crew Pursuit
Curler gap: 5,000m
Rose Laliberté-Roy: 500m
Béatrice Lamarche: 1,000m, Crew Dash
Valerie Maltais: 1,500m, 3,000m, Mass Begin, Crew Pursuit
Brooklyn McDougal: 500m, Crew Dash
Isabelle Weidemann: 3,000m, 5,000m, staff monitoring
Methods to view:
All races will probably be streamed reside on CBCSports.ca and CBC Gem. The CBC TV Community could have further protection on Saturdays at 1pm ET. That is the total schedule of the occasion.
